Usually means: Originating from a different country.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word foreign:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreign: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. foreign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foreign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foreign: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foreign: Wiktionary
  6. foreign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. foreign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. foreign: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. foreign: Dictionary.com
  10. foreign: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. foreign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Foreign (Trey Songz song), Foreign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Foreign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. foreign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. foreign: Rhymezone
  16. foreign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. foreign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. foreign: Free Dictionary
  19. foreign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. foreign: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. foreign: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. foreign: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. foreign: Vocabulary.com
  24. Foreign, foreign: Wordnik
  25. foreign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreign: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. FOREIGN: Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Foreign: Investopedia
  6. foreign: Legal dictionary
  7. Foreign: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreign: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. foreign: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreign: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. foreign: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. foreign: Coin Collecting

(Note: See foreignness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
adjective:  Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
adjective:  Relating to a different nation.
adjective:  Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
adjective:  (with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
adjective:  (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
adjective:  (US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
adjective:  Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
adjective:  (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
noun:  A foreign person
noun:  (now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
noun:  (obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
noun:  (obsolete) A non-guildmember.
noun:  A foreign vehicle
noun:  (obsolete) A foreign ship.
noun:  (slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
noun:  (obsolete) An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
noun:  A foreign area
noun:  (now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
noun:  (obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
noun:  Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.

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